Yesterday, PoD has been tested at CERN.
We used PoD 2.1.1 and LSF plug-in. The LSF plug-in so-far only supports a shared file system on LSF, the installation therefore was done on AFS.
So, as it was expected ;) PoD worked out of the box! We submitted about 30 jobs. The start-up time for LSF jobs was very vast. I think we got all our workers within 20 seconds.
Now I can confirm, PoD (with LSF plug-in) has been officially tested at CERN.
The only problem we faced was the restriction of AFS.
New version of PoD creates a named-pipe - it is used in the latest thread pool algorithm of PoD. Unfortunately we found out that AFS doesn't support pipes:
Subject: 2.13 Can I create a fifo (aka named pipe) in /afs?No. AFS does not support "mknod fifofile p".
It is actually very simple to fix in PoD. The patch is already in development and will be released very soon.
Have a nice day!
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